[va-richmond-general] James River Park, 3/6 and 3/7
- From: Lewis Barnett <lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Richmond Audubon Society mailing list <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:33:46 -0500
I was one of the faint-hearted who dropped out of the Powhite Park trip
-- my daughter wasn't too keen on being soaking wet.
To make up for missing out, I hit the Wetlands yesterday afternoon and
walked from 42nd Street down to Belle Isle this morning. Highlights
were a pair of American Wigeons in the Wetlands pond and one of the
Winter Wrens still hanging out on the main road in. There were also a
couple of Pine Warblers singing in the woods between the entrance and
the first fork. Today I found a pair of Black Ducks down near the Belle
Isle end of the main area and saw four or five Tree Swallows out over
the river. There was also a Ring-billed Gull out over the river playing
with a small stick. The game consisted of dropping the stick and then
retrieving it. A few times, it dropped the stick and caught it in mid
air, then, after missing once and letting the stick fall in the water,
it played the game several times by dropping the stick in to the water
deliberately and fishing it out again. I got a good chuckle out of the
scene. Full lists follow:
Saturday, March 6, James River Park - Wetlands, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
American Wigeon
Mallard
Canada Goose
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Accipiter sp., probably Sharp-Shinned
Killdeer (heard only)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay (heard only)
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Kinglet sp.
American Robin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler (heard only)
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Sunday, 3/7/04, James River Park - Main area 8:00am - 10:30am
Double-crested Cormorant
Mallard
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay (heard only)
Crow sp
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch
--
Lewis Barnett -- Dept. of Math & CS, U. of Richmond, VA 23173
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-- http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/
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